Tag: customer experience

This is a guest post from Oisin Lunny, Chief Evangelist, OpenMarket, and follows on from a discussion that Oisin and I had about the annual tech prediction cycle. This is #BoringIsCool article No. 2. No. 1 is here. Customer Experience in 2018 is all about the latest new tech baubles, right? Sure, if you want to forget about your actual customers. CX conferences are full of the latest variations on isolated themes within the customer journey, and companies’ quarterly forecasts …

Today’s interview is with Arnaud de Lacoste, Chief Marketing Officer of Sitel and Founding Partner of Group Acticall, a world leading provider of customer experience management & business process outsourcing solutions. Arnaud joins me today to talk about data, big and small, causation and correlation, the use of AI, the impact on insight and what brands should be doing to better connect with their customers. This interview follows on from my recent interview – The Future Of Work, Workforce Experience …

“In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.” – Edmund Burke, Irish writer, politician, journalist and philosopher “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” – George Santayana, Spanish philosopher and novelist Are you a fan of history? If you work in customer service or support, then I believe you should be. I don’t mean the sort of history that involves …

Today’s interview is with Erica Volini, who is the US Human Capital leader for Deloitte Consulting. Erica joins me today to talk about the Future Of Work, the implications for organisations, organisational transformation, Digital DNA and how the employee experience fits into all of this. This interview follows on from my recent interview – The uniqueness in everyone is the largest asset you have in customer experience – Interview with Sam Johnson of Jamf – and is number 241 in …

Last year I wrote a piece called 3 Customer Groups That Are Being Overlooked In The Customer Experience Whirlwind. In it I ventured that there were a number of different groups of customers (The Rich Elders, The Private and The Quick) that weren’t getting a lot of attention. One of those groups, The Rich Elders, came into focus again for me recently in a conversation with Bruce Fielding, founder of Sterling.Agency, an agency that focuses on helping brands engage with …

Today’s interview is with Sam Johnson, VP of customer experience at Jamf, a provider of software for enterprises and smaller businesses that helps them manage their Apple devices. Sam joins me today to talk about the idea that despite the fact that Jamf is a ‘tech’ focused company, most of the people that they hire don’t have tech backgrounds, why they taken that approach, how it came about, what the benefits have been and what others can learn from it. …

This is a guest post from Jamie Edwards, the co-founder and COO of Kayako. It’s no secret that live chat is becoming more and more important in customer service. What used to be a relatively uncommon tool is now increasingly a part of the customer support agent’s arsenal. Consider the research: According to Twilio and the market research firm Vanson Bourne, live chat is the preferred channel for customer service in South Korea, the U.S., Singapore, and India. Millennials—who love …

Today’s interview is with Rob Tarkoff, President and CEO of Lithium Technologies, a digital customer experience platform company. Their technology both powers some of the world’s largest online communities and helps some of the worlds largest brands with social customer care and publishing. Rob joins me today to talk about some recently published research, engagement, what it is, what it isn’t, what brands should be doing more and less of to help them engage more with their customers and the …

Creating a personalized customer experience is a goal for many, if not all, firms as they strive to compete for, retain and deliver the best customer experience to their customers. But, if you have been to any conferences or have been reading analyst and commentariat articles lately, one would not be wrong in thinking that the way to achieve this was primarily through the use of software, data and analytics. This seems to be particularly true for firms that operate …

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I’m a huge fan of organisations that do great things for their customers and their employees and I’m a helper to many wanting to achieve their own level of greatness. I’m also a lover of simplicity and advocate of the human touch with a bit of really useful technology thrown in.